f1vu

Hi Drew,

On a different topic, Can you tell me where to order the wood panel for the heat/ac vent in your ML? I have seen some wood kit from a couple of sites but is not sure of their quality and they look plastic like. Yours look like they are real wood?


Also, can you still order the ML instrument chrome rings and how much? Thank you in advance for your help.

Xeon

Drew..pls check your pm box

f1vu

Drew or any forum member,

Do you guys know where I can buy those LED "city lights" for my CLK55 W208? The wedge LED bulbs look great in terms of color, but the wedge style bulb is not the same type that goes on the W208. The W208 takes this H6 type and the end of the bulb looks like a small flashlight bulb.

I have tried the Phillips H6, the Polarg M17, etc... I do not like the colors on those bulbs.

Thanks....

Drew_ML

Got it, I'll reply in a bit

Moser

So do you add new 194 sockets and leave the existing bulbs hanging behind the city light housing?

Do they need to be wrapped up / waterproofed or anything?
What dd you do Drew?

Thanks
Moser

Drew_ML

I actually ziptied them and then used electrical tape to hold them in place. You need to be careful because not all sockets are the same. I had to look for quite a while before finding some European W5W sockets made by a Canadian company. The couple of others that I found were far too large and you run into problems with the bulb touching the wiring; the little 5 watt incadescent bulb still does get hot to the touch after a few mins of being illuminated

Silver_Lana

Has anyone tried this but Drew?
His solution while effective is rather exotic or cumbersome depending on your point of view.
Just looking for some more feedback since i now have my Bi-Xenons here.

Drew_ML

Heh, in fact my solution is the only way to get it working, unless you want to find some sort of resistor and wire that in, inside the headlamp.

I've since added the LED wedge bulbs to my clear corners as well, and they look superb! I was annoyed by how the so called whiter bulbs were still not white enough, and the yellowish clear corners (relatively speaking of course) were throwing off the entire ensemble, if you will.

Silver_Lana

Damned perfectionists.....

kaduku

Hey Drew,

What kind of wiring did you have to do to trick the computer after installing those new city lights from formymercedes.com.

Randy
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2003 C240, 2000 ML320, 190E 2.3

PerfectionSe7en

Ok, I want to put the Led's on the city lights (want to go different this time instead of the standard superwhite 194 bulbs). I know there are those "bulb out" issues and I'm guessing I'd need a load equilizer.

I emailed the guy @ myroadster.net (?) and he said that I do need the load equilizers for the city lights. Now my assumption from reading these forums is that I would definitely need them for my turn signals. I'm not sure if I need them for my city lights. So i have 2 questions:

1. Do I need a load equilizer for my city lights?

2. Where's the best place to place them? (b/c i've heard that they get hot)

SOC320

Hi, all.

Is there a way to have your City Lights on during the day while all your other lights are off???

Essentially, I am looking to use these as Daytime Running Lamps INSTEAD of the BiXenon headlights as selectable using the programmable controls (per the manual).

Has anyone looked to do this or done this? Thanks.

TimmyC230boy

The city lights are not bright enough for that. Turn your light switch to the 2nd position and your city lights, and rear lights will come on

SOC320

I know, but it makes for good accent lighting nontheless. The BiXenons are just the opposite... TOO Bright for Daytime Running Lights.

Is there a way to have the City Lights on without turning on the other lights?

LorinserCClass

But it looks so Im one of those lame-o's that drive around w/the bixenons on

SOC320

Nothing wrong with that. I happen to like the subtleness that the City Lights provide on this car. -I just can't find a way to have only those on.- My other car does not have City Lights and on that one I sometimes do just use my Xenons as well.

KOMPRESSORnSC

Here's an interesting link about DRL's. These people are so funny! One of the reaons I read that they claim DRL's are dangerous was becasue cars with them stand out more than cars without, making the cars without harder to see.

Uh. Duh?

http://www.lightsout.org/

R4ND0M_AX3

It also makes pedestrians less noticable unless they too have DRLs.

SOC320

That's hilarious. Now if I could just get the City Lights on by themselves.

Josh K

If you want to have them on by themselves then you have to install another set of them that's independently switched, which probably means drilling a set of holes in your lights to fit the bulbs into. These would be independent of the stock city lights. Of course you could always try adding a switch to the stock ones but then you have to get into the wiring of the car and you'll probably get bulb out malfunctions.

Lynn

Wouldn't it be easier to run a wire from the fuse box to a switch then to the city lights so that they could be turned on and off independently?

Josh K

No because the fuse for these lights is the fuse for all the parking lights. So switching the fuse would basically do exactly what the parking lights switch does.

SOC320

Getting into the wiring isn't something that I would want to do. The electrical on german cars in general tend are sometime finicky or flakey. I don't want to add to any quirks that may occur in the future. I was hoping that there was a simpler or straightforward way to do this. Oh well, thanks all. If anyone comes across something in the future, let me know.

us_matrix

Hi,

I have Bi-Xeon (Lighting package) on my 03 CLK320 and i believe it is exactly same as W203 Bi-Xeon. It looks great but the parking lamps W5W (little one below the high beam) is very yellow. I want to change it to whiter/bluer color lamps. Did you guys change to whiter/bluer light and which one would you recommand? Can someone give me the brand/model and web site.

Thanks.

02Impressor

I believe these are the parking lights (the ones that are always ON) so you need model# 194 bulbs

I'd attach a picture of my blue setup but the max is 1 byte for pics?!